 | Happiness Key
Publication Date: June 1, 2010Meet four women who think they share nothing but a spit of land called Happiness Key.With her husband in prison, pampered Tracy Deloche is left with five ramshackle beach houses and no idea how to start over. Janya Kapur left her close-knit Indian family for an arranged marriage to a man she barely knows. Wanda Gray takes a job guaranteed to destroy her already failing marriage—if her husband cares enough to notice. Widow Alice Brooks has grown forgetful and confused. Her family comes to stay with her, but Alice isn't sure she's grateful.When the only oth...
 |  | Apocalypse Unleashed: The Earth's Last Days: The Battle Rages On (Left Behind Military)
Publication Date: October 29, 2008| Series: Left Behind Military (Book 4) In this a much anticipated conclusion to the Apocalypse series, First Sergeant “Goose” Gander of the United States Army Rangers is in over his head, and he knows it. Trapped by the Rapture in the carnage of Middle Eastern shooting war, far from his wife and kid back home, he's living every day on the edge, afraid each moment might be his last, terrified that he'll never see the people he loves again. The war on the Syrian/Turkish border is heating up, and the opposition armies and the local warlords are s...
|  | Greenies Girl
Publication Date: January 30, 2012Cathy, Maggie and 'Shortstuff' are an unlikely trio of women whose lives and work intertwine in the dramatic and fascinating landscape of the human condition. Cathy's domineering mother plays a major role in shaping her life, while her father is the rock she can depend on. Maggie is buoyed by her children as she follows her path, and 'Shortstuff' evolves from shallowness to full womanhood. The women's partners, Pete, Sam and Barney, are along for the ride as the women traverse their way.Follow the wonderful characters in Greenies Girl as they grow and flouri...
|  | Nag's Head: Or, Two Months among "The Bankers." A Story of Sea-Shore Life and Manners
Publication Date: June 5, 2012WORTHY READER, a word with you! Were you ever at Nag's Head? Heard you ever of it? I shall provoke no jealousy on the part of Mr. Wiley, the author of "ROANOKE, OR WHERE IS UTOPIA," by saying a word or two of this Ultima Thule in THE OLD NORTH STATE Geography. Briefly, then, a glance at the map will show you a long bank, varying from a few yards to some furlongs in width, extending like a vast breakwater along almost the entire coast of the Carolinas. Through this there are several inlets from the sea, leading into a cordon of beautiful sounds (among which the A...
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|  | The Poetry of Rilke
Release Date: March 15, 2011| ISBN-10: 0374532710 | ISBN-13: 978-0374532710| Edition: First Edition, Bilingual Edition For the past twenty-five years, North Point Press has been working with Edward Snow, “Rilke’s best contemporary translator” (Brian Phillips, The New Republic), to bring into English Rilke’s major poetic works. The Poetry of Rilke—the single most comprehensive volume of Rilke’s German poetry ever to be published in English—is the culmination of this effort. With more than two hundred and fifty selected poems by Rilke, inclu...
|  | The Romantic Ideology: A Critical Investigation
Publication Date: February 15, 1985Claiming that the scholarship and criticism of Romanticism and its works have for too long been dominated by a Romantic ideology—by an uncritical absorption in Romanticism's own self-representations—Jerome J. McGann presents a new, critical view of the subject that calls for a radically revisionary reading of Romanticism.In the course of his study, McGann analyzes both the predominant theories of Romanticism (those deriving from Coleridge, Hegel, and Heine) and the products of its major English practitioners. Words worth, Coleridge, Shelley, and...
|  | Vices and Virtues by Denis the Carthusian
Publication Date: April 28, 2009Vices and Virtues is a serious study of the flawed human condition. It is original sin ‘writ large’. Nothing escapes the all-pervading eye of Denis the Carthusian. It is amazing how a hermit could be so conversant with the wiles of humanity. His examples of the various vices of mankind throughout the centuries make for interesting reading, while the virtues, in contrast, are elevated – probably beyond the capacity of most of us – but nevertheless have an inherent beauty in theòparti...
|  | Warrior Rising (Goddess Summoning, Book 6)
Release Date: May 6, 2008From ?a stellar talent?( New York Times bestselling author Karen Marie Moning) comes another ?scorchingly sensual, utterly delicious?( New York Times bestselling author Gena Showalter) novel? The Goddesses have had it with the Trojan War. So much devastation?all because of some silly male egos. The worst of the bunch is that cocky, handsome brute Achilles. But the only way to stop a man like Achilles is to distract him with something far more pleasurable than combat? Enter Kat, a modern girl from Tulsa, Oklahoma. The Goddesses transform her into a Trojan princess, ha...
|  | At the Edge of the Sun
Release Date: April 1, 1987A perfect blend of provocative beauty and fighting skill kept her safe in the most dangerous situations. But Maggie Bennett had no protection against her feelings for the handsome, mysterious Randall Carter. Torn by memories of past hurts, hopes for new love tossed her back into his arms and onto the bloody trail of a notorious terrorist. Maggie and Randall would be swept on a wild roller-coaster ride of violence and betrayal ... targets for an assassin's bullet and a passion striking without warning from the dark depths of the heart. ...
|  | With Every Breath (Arabesque)
Publication Date: November 1, 2004| Series: Arabesque Imani Maxwell is a professor at the University of Maryland, College Park on her way to tenure at her alma mater. She is very compassionate about African-American literature, which is seen in her teachings and her interactions with her students. However, her love life is not fairing as well as her career endeavors. Her relationship with her brother's best friend is going no where, and she doesn't know exactly how to end it. When she meets FBI Agent Garrison Wade after one of her students is kidnapped, she begins to question her ability to ...
|  | Dog Tags (Andy Carpenter)
Publication Date: June 1, 2011| Series: Andy Carpenter A German Shepherd police dog witnesses a murder and if his owner--an Iraq war vet and former cop-turned-thief--is convicted of the crime, the dog could be put down. Few rival Andy Carpenter's affection for dogs, and he decides to represent the poor canine.As Andy struggles to convince a judge that this dog should be set free, he discovers that the dog and his owner have become involved unwittingly in a case of much greater proportions than the one they've been charged with.Andy will have to call upon the unique abilities of this ex-polic...
|  | Ghost in the Polka Dot Bikini (A Ghost of Granny Apples Mystery)
Publication Date: February 8, 2011| Series: A Ghost of Granny Apples Mystery (Book 2) Imagine spending eternity with your backside hanging out—that's what Emma Whitecastle and Granny Apples can't help but think when they meet the ghost of Tessa North frolicking in the surf off Catalina Island. Tessa, a young starlet who died on the island in the 1960s wearing nothing but a polka dot bikini, won't cross over until "Curtis" comes for her. To help the winsome, bikini-clad spirit, Emma and Granny must find out who Curtis is and how Tessa died. Their investigation takes them from the grit ...
|  | The Hunter's Tale (Sister Frevisse Medieval Mysteries)
Release Date: December 7, 2004| Series: Sister Frevisse Medieval Mysteries FAMILY SECRETS AND A LEGACY LOST...In the summer of 1448, when Sir Ralph Woderove is found murdered near his estate, not even his family mourns. A hard, vicious man of many quarrels, Sir Ralph could have been killed by almost anyone. And though the consensus is that his soul has surely gone to Hell, Sir Ralph will continue to infuriate his heirs in death through the grossly inadequate terms of his estate's settlement.It falls to Dame Frevisse to escort Sir Ralph's widow and daughter back to their manor, when anoth...
|  | Ghost Buddy #1: Zero to Hero
Publication Date: January 1, 2012| Age Level: 8 and up...
|  | Purple Princess Wins the Prize (Perfectly Princess, Book 2)
Publication Date: April 1, 2010| Age Level: 7 and up...
|  | Her Seven Brothers
Release Date: September 30, 1993| Age Level: 4 and up When an Indian girl begins to make clothes beautifully decorated with porcupine quills for seven brothers she has not yet met, her parents believe that unseen powers have spoken to her. The girl knows she must travel to the north country to find the seven brothers. She comforts her mother by saying, "Soon you will see me again with my brothers; everyone will know and love us!" ...
|  | Cal Ripken, Jr.: Play Ball! (Puffin Easy-To-Read)
Release Date: March 1, 1999| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: K and up...
|  | De la A a la Z con los deportes/ From A to Z with Sports (Leer Es Vivir/ Reading Is Living) (Spanish Edition)
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|  | The Firefly Letters: A Suffragette's Journey to Cuba
Release Date: March 16, 2010| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up The freedom to roam is something that women and girls in Cuba do not have. Yet when Fredrika Bremer visits from Sweden in 1851 to learn about the people of this magical island, she is accompanied by Cecilia, a young slave who longs for her lost home in Africa. Soon Elena, the wealthy daughter of the house, sneaks out to join them. As the three women explore the lush countryside, they form a bond that breaks the barriers of language and culture. In this quietly powerful new book, award-winning poet Margarita Engle pain...
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